A Natural Scientist

Dear Readers, there have been THINGS going on. (I have three small children.  There are always THINGS, frankly.) I weaned Sweetpea two m...

My older children are upstairs trying to murder each other and Sweetpea has taken to climbing on things and then walking off the edge .  So!...

A friend asked me this week if it really matters if other people delay vaccinating their children.  As long as their child has received at l...

Have you ever noticed that the more children you have, the more travel becomes like unto packing up a circus, tent and all?  I think we migh...

Dr. S is at a conference... for a week.  Naturally, I went and stayed with my mama for three days. Also naturally, my children didn't ge...

I stepped on one of our hazelnut twigs (tree-to-be) and another died in the exceptionally cold winter.  BAH.   The mastitis is maybe... m...

Somehow, parenting with Sweetpea around - now that I can sleep some of the time, and have recovered most of my physical health - feels a lit...

Here is a randomly assorted collection of thoughts: Pregnancy is easier to handle without severe chronic pain and I don't care how gra...

12:00 Preschool pickup.  Bug throws a tantrum, as usual, and we stand outside the car for ten minutes until he stops waving his arms around ...

For me, the best part of having kids is watching them change as they grow up - seeing them learn new skills, new words, new ideas, one at a ...

Bug likes to say to me and to Tatoe, "I love you.  Do you love me?"  And I say "Yes, buddy, of course I love you lots and lot...

Let me start by saying that I have pretty much read all the helpful books ever  about sibling rivalry.  They all make the assumption that yo...

The combination of No Preschool and No Friends is hellacious.  I am so bored.  And lonely.  And bored.  And, actually, really unhappy.  If ...

1) Thank all the deities we do not now, nor will we (probably) ever, live near my mother-in-law.  I just had this terrifying flash of ham di...

Well, in fact he's been saying word-like things for several months, but around 16 months (so in February) he started talking in grammati...

(For anyone wanting to know about actual data on sleep training- spoiler, there is very little!- see glum bunny's excellent post on the ...

Three years ago, I walked out the door at Bicycle Company with  my stuff in a box, and I've been housewifeing it up ever since. Some d...

Tatoe now takes one nap, around 11:30 or noon or 1 or whenever I manage (sorry, kid). Bug goes to school 11:30-2:30 four days a week, with...

Several people pointed out that the Groundhog Day housewifery will eventually evolve.  This is true!  (Also an argument against spawning aga...

(Written, oh, a year ago, and still true.)  As you may have gathered, Dr. S really wants to leave his lab.  Any time now.  And I really wa...